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Carbon farming could restore Australia’s southern coastal wetlands (The Conversation)

Colin Creighton of the Fisheries Research Development Corporation, Neil Saintilan of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and Anissa Lawrence of TierraMar Consulting also contributed to this article.

Australia’s southern coastal wetlands are more diverse than most people realise. In a recent paper, Paul Boon suggests they provide valuable ecological services that exceed those of inland wetland ecosystems. But these wetlands face enormous pressures from urban development and climate change. Fifty percent of coastal wetlands have been lost from the east coast of Australia.

Despite this staggering loss we don’t know enough about them to manage or restore them effectively because of years of under-valuing, under-researching, under-funding and under-managing them. We now have an opportunity to redress the poor treatment of our southern coastal wetlands. Read more

 

Optimising and managing coastal carbon - Comparative sequestration and mitigation opportunities across Australia’s landscapes and land uses

This report was produced by TierraMar in partnership with the University of Queensland, Australia and GRID ARENDAL, commissioned by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC).

The report summarises the ability of Australia’s coastal wetland ecosystems, particularly mangroves, saltmarsh and seagrass to capture and store carbon. Coastal carbon capture and storage was compared with carbon capture of Australia’s terrestrial ecosystems, including native forests grasslands, croplands, freshwater wetlands and agricultural land use.

It is internationally recognised that carbon sequestration, or removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in vegetation and soils is a key part of the strategy to mitigate against the world’s changing climate. The focus of Kyoto and many other international forums has been on accounting for emissions and removals of greenhouse gases from the land, including the growth and life cycles of forests and agricultural crops, soils, land cover change and land management.

There is evidence and growing consensus that through avoided emissions, conservation, repair and sustainable use the world’s coastal wetland ecosystems can play a major role in carbon management. Known as blue carbon sinks, mangroves, seagrass and saltmarsh can sequester and store carbon in their sediments and biomass at higher rates than those of terrestrial forests. Unlike most terrestrial ecosystems, the carbon stored in coastal wetland ecosystem sediments has extremely long residence times, potentially for millennia.

 

Blue Carbon - A new concept for reducing the impacts of climate change by conserving coastal ecosystems in the Coral Triangle

This paper is aimed at politicians, governments, businesses and organisations that influence the development of policies and strategies in climate change mitigation and adaptation, poverty alleviation, natural resource use, biodiversity conservation and economics.

TierraMar wrote the report in partnership with WWF. Click here to download the report

   

Bella, our Baby Orangutan

BellaTierraMar is pleased to announce that we have adopted Bella from the Orangutan Appeal UK to support the organisation to protect remaining wild populations of orangutans through projects across Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo. We welcomed Bella to TierraMar in February 2012. Bella is three years old and is living in Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in the Malaysian Sabah District of North Borneo.

Bella

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